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Extend Faker in Laravel 11

Sometimes it’s necessary to make your testing data appear as close to the production data as possible. In my case, I wanted more…

Oct 19

Extend Faker in Laravel 11

Oct 19

Prop Drilling is a Code Smell When Used Incorrectly

Prop drilling is considered an anti-pattern in React because it involves passing props down multiple levels of a component tree, even when…

Oct 11

Prop Drilling is a Code Smell When Used Incorrectly

Oct 11

3 JavaScript Array Sorting Algorithms and When to Use Them

Let’s compare three common JavaScript array sorting algorithms: Bubble Sort, Merge Sort, and Quick Sort. I’ll explain each, provide…

Oct 11

3 JavaScript Array Sorting Algorithms and When to Use Them

Oct 11

You Might Be One Rug Pull Away From Crippling Infrastructure Bills

Somewhere around the early 2010s the hot tech news was companies moving their tech off self managed “On Prem” hardware and migrating to the…

Oct 7

You Might Be One Rug Pull Away From Crippling Infrastructure Bills

Oct 7

RPC; Everything Old is New Again

Possibly since the inception of computing, the paradigm of client to server communication has been an important, sometimes overlooked…

May 20, 2023

RPC; Everything Old is New Again

May 20, 2023

The Singleton; a Dangerously Overused Pattern

While the Singleton has its uses, in most cases the drawbacks may be more dangerous than the convenience it provides. If you’re like me…

May 6, 2023

The Singleton; a Dangerously Overused Pattern

May 6, 2023

Software Architecture; When and How to Use the Adaptor Pattern (with examples in PHP)

In the world of electronics (at least if you’re as old as me) everyone is familiar with the solution to a cable that doesn’t fit, an…

May 6, 2023

Software Architecture; When and How to Use the Adaptor Pattern (with examples in PHP)

May 6, 2023

PHP8’s Nullsafe Operator or “Optional Chaining”

In JavaScript this feature is called “optional chaining” where you can reduce the amount of checks that you need to do by chaining…

Apr 26, 2023

Apr 26, 2023

Are All Programming Languages Becoming the Same?

Programming languages like JavaScript tend to be created when there is a domain specific problem to solve. In the case of JS, it was…

Apr 22, 2023

Are All Programming Languages Becoming the Same?

Apr 22, 2023

3 Quick Tips to Jumpstart Your Journey with GitHub Copilot

The more mature the career of software development becomes, the more it converges with other skilled trades like mechanic. In many skilled…

Apr 22, 2023

3 Quick Tips to Jumpstart Your Journey with GitHub Copilot

Apr 22, 2023

Tim Williams

Tim Williams

I am a Web Developer passionate about new technologies, as well as time tested best practices (here’s looking at you Uncle Bob).

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